April 19, 2012
Kirwan Institute Research Associate and writer Angela Stanley joins us for a conversation on the myth surrounding marriage and black women.
April 19, 2012
Listen is as reporter Emmett Miller talks about his upcoming BET news special on Trayvon Martin entitled, I Am Trayvon: A Famiy's Fight for Justice, which airs Friday, April 20th at 7:30pm on BET.
April 18, 2012
Today, poet Kevin Young joins us to talk about his newly released book The Grey Album: Balckness of Blackness, examining the centrality of African American culture in America.
April 18, 2012
Today, Michael Micalizzi, Kevin Morrow and Johnny Ramey join us to discuss ther roles in Center Stage's newest play The Whipping Man.
April 18, 2012
Listen in as the famed broadcaster Tavis Smiley joins us for a conversation on the newly released book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto that he co-wrote with Dr. Cornel West.
April 17, 2012
We're joined by Jed Deitz, director of the Maryland Film Festival, as well as two of the filmmakers from this year's festival, for a discussion about the packed weekend of screenings coming up May 3 - 6.
April 17, 2012
April 16, 2012
Author and professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University Lester Spence and award-winning author and poet Ethelbert Miller join us for a discussion on The Last Holiday, a memoir on the late Gil Scott-Heron.
April 16, 2012
For two years, Richard Benjamin embarked on a journey to gain understanding of a new phenomenon, a sudden spring in the building of white communities.
April 12, 2012
Documentary poet, labor activist, and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Mark Nowak and 2008 National Book Award finalist and four-time national Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith join us to discuss what motivates them as poets seeking to engage with a wide audience and work for social justice.
April 12, 2012
Today on the show we take a look at the drugs we feed to livestock, and how that affects human health. First, Dr. Lance Price joins us.
April 11, 2012
Angela Smith Project Director of Center for a Livable Future's Baltimore Food and Faith Project, Kellie Vaughan-James from Ark Church and Christian Metzger from the Franciscan Cent
April 11, 2012
Dave Zirin of the Edge of Sports joins us for a discussion on the piece he wrote about the controversial comments about Fidel Castro made by Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen.
April 11, 2012
Political Analyst Edward Wyckoff Williams joins us to discuss the new charges, which have not yet been revealed, that are being brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. We'll also discuss the issues Mr.
April 11, 2012
Today, we are joined by Maryland Senate President Mike Miller to discuss the messy ending of the 2012 legislative session and, what is to come.
April 11, 2012
You might be familiar with the 2004 movie Closer. But did you know it was a play before it was a film? Today we're joined by co-producers of a new production of Closer that brings together actors from England with tech students from Baltimore School for the Arts, as part of a long-standing collaboration bet
April 10, 2012
We're joined by three guests to discuss a recent Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that requires the Maryland Public Defenders office to provide representation to poor defendants at their bail hearings.
First, Maryland Public Defender Paul DeWolfe talks about the steps his office is taking to comply with the ruling.
April 10, 2012
Last night for the first time since 1992, the legislative session ended without agreement on a budget for the next fiscal year. A "doomsday budget" will go into effect, slashing state programs, unless Governor Martin O'Malley calls a special session and lawmakers ar
April 10, 2012
We're joined by Winona LaDuke, founder and director of Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project. Winona is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer. She ran for Vice President as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000.
April 9, 2012
With issues of race and violence and police and our judicial system making headlines all over the United States, from Florida to Tulsa, we are joined by a roundtable to discuss how these issues affect society.
April 9, 2012
Anthony McCarthy joins us as a co-host as we talk about race and violence in the U.S. in light of recent incidents drawing national attention such as Trayvon Martin's killing and the shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend.
March 30, 2012
We'll discuss the power of hip hop in social change and revolutionary movements with Morgan State University professor Jared Ball, author and graphic designer Darius Wilmore, Harrabic Tubman, co-founder of Existence is Resistance
March 30, 2012
Author Deanne Stillman joins us for a conversation on the threats to wild horses and her latest release Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.
March 30, 2012
Today we continue our Sound Bites series with a look back at the history of food in our area. We're joined by culinary historian Michael Twitty, who blogs at afroculiaria.com, and Dr.
March 30, 2012
Dubbed "The Nannies' Norma Rae" by The New York Times, Ai-jen Poo has worked for over a decade advocating for the rights of domestic workers with Domestic Workers United. Today, she joins us to discuss organizing with immigrants for labor rights.
March 30, 2012
As the Executive Director for the Center for Community Change, Deepak Bhargava works to empower low-income people through community-building. Today, he joins us to discuss organizing for civil rights and economic justice.
March 30, 2012
Seth Rockman, historian from Brown University and co-editor of Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development sits down with us to discuss how slavery led to modern capitalism.
March 30, 2012
Join us for a conversation with cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, whose work is beloved both in his adopted hometown of Baltimore and throughout the world.
March 30, 2012
Today, we sit down with Lucas Benitez, who came to the United States as a teenager to help support his family by doing farmwork. As a response to the unfair treatment of farm laborers, he co-founded the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida.
March 30, 2012
Henry Red Cloud has spent over a decade working to bring green technology and renewable energy to some of the poorest communities in the United States. Currently, he runs the Lakota Solar Enterprises on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
March 30, 2012
Join us as we sit down with poet and author Rodger Kamenetz to discuss dreams, how spirituality gets lost in modern life and his latest book: Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka.
March 30, 2012
This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.
March 29, 2012
We continue our coverage of the Perdue/Hudson lawsuit with this update on a bill that would require the University of Maryland Law Clinic to reimburse the Hudson family for their legal expenses.
March 29, 2012
Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has been leading the fight for a just and efficient system of health care in the United States for years. Currently a professor emeritus of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Relman joins us to weigh in on the national debate over health care reform.
March 29, 2012
Baltimore-born actor Josh Charles joins us to talk about the world of acting. He currently stars in the television series The Good Wife, and has played varied roles throughout his career in films and shows including Hairspray, Dead Poets Society, and Sports Night.
March 28, 2012
Join us for a conversation with motivational speaker, host of Listen Up and author of the newly released Finding Your Glasses: Revealing and Achieving Authentic Success Justin Jones- Fosu.
March 28, 2012
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is in its third day of hearings around President Obama's healthcare plan. Yesterday the high court heard oral arguments around the constitutionality of the requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty. What do you think? Do you endorse President Obama's healthcare plan, oppose it, or fall somewhere in between?
March 28, 2012
For someone born in 1879, Margaret Sanger has been making a lot of headlines recently. As a pioneer of the movement to make birth control legal and accessible, and the founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, Sanger's work has been thrust into the limelight as the modern fight over birth control and abortion access heats up. In this Urbanite Radio Story, we speak with G
March 27, 2012
Baltimore's property tax rate is more than twice that of any county in Maryland, including those that immediately surround the city. Would cutting the Baltimore tax rate lead to an influx of new residents in the city? Would a lower rate lead to less revenue for the city and a need for budget cuts?
March 27, 2012
Jeff Clements, co-founder of Free Speech for People and author of Corporations Are Not People, joins us to discuss the movement to overturn Citizens United v.
March 26, 2012
Anthony McCarthy co-hosts as American Studies professor at UMBC Kimberly Moffitt, History professor at UMBC Michelle Scott and Associate Web Editor at United Republic Suzann
March 26, 2012
Author and journalist Chris Hedges joins us in the studio for a wide-ranging discussion of current events. He spent nearly 20 years as a foreign correspondent, working for the New York Times, NPR, and the Christian Science Monitor, among other news organizations.
March 22, 2012
Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Edgar Heap of Birds joins us to discuss his work and the place of Native American culture within the rest of American culture. Edgar will be speaking at MICA this Monday March 26th at noon; click here for more info.
March 22, 2012
Actors Powell Lawrence and Chinaza Uche join us to discuss the current of production of The Brothers Size, by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore.
March 22, 2012
This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.
March 21, 2012
Author Rebecca Walker, who edited the new book Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, joins us to discuss the definition of coolness within African American culture.
March 21, 2012
Join us for a conversation with Rangina Hamidi, who fled Afghanistan, where she was born, at the age of three during the Soviet occupation, returned in 2003 and led a program to create sustainable employment for women, and has once again fled the country due to security fears.
March 21, 2012
Gregg Hill, Coordinator for the Baltimore Algebra Project Advocacy Committee, Food Campaign Organizer Katherine Engleman and advocates Twan Jordan and Datwain Roberts join us to discuss their efforts to bring healthy, delicious food to school cafeterias.
March 20, 2012
17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a member of a neighborhood watch group in Florida. As details of the case come out, calls for the arrest of his alleged killer have multiplied.
March 20, 2012
We discuss the tragic civilian massacre of March 11th, in which at least 16 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed. US Army staff sergeant Robert Bales is suspected of carrying out the killing spree. Three military veterans and one journalist join us this hour.